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There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great… — Judith Butler
The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to… — RuPaul
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of… — Junot Diaz
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. — Muhammad Iqbal
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief… — Michael Johnson
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects… — Moby
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one… — Anna Pavlova
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we… — Harlan Ellison
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless… — Cormac McCarthy
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He… — Diana Gabaldon
Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a… — Jostein Gaarder
There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will… — Kate Chopin
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of… — Daphne du Maurier
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by… — Douglas Coupland
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just… — Paul Celan
Puck stopped his drumming [on his belly] for a brief moment and grinned at Sabrina. I hear they have a lot of plastic surgeons in… — Michael Buckley
In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the… — J R Ward
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we… — Ronald Reagan
As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and… — J. Michael Straczynski
The guy I'd felt such an immediate and deep connection to I'd thought that just maybe there really were such things as soul mates, and… — P. C. Cast
Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?"… — Stephenie Meyer
For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started! — Charles M. Schulz
My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by… — James Frey

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